1492 Incunable Leaf Summa Angelica Civil & Canon Law 7 Hand-Painted Letters

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1492 Incunable Leaf Summa Angelica Civil & Canon Law 7 Hand-Painted Letters:
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This is an incunabula leaf fromthe "Summa Angelica de Casibus Conscientiae" writtenby Angelus de Clavasio. The "Summa" is divided intosix hundred and fifty-nine articles arranged in alphabetical orderand forming what would now be called a dictionary of moral theology.Angelus (b.1411- d.1495 ) was a theologian of the order of FriarsMinor who held the title of both Doctor of Civil and Cannon Lawand the offices of vicar-general of Cismontane Observance andApostolic Nuncio under Pope Sixtus IV. Georgius Arrivabenus printedit on June 4 1492 at Venice from a first edition printed in 1476and it underwent 31 editions into the 16th century. The octavosize leaf measures 150 x 115 mm. in totality and contain 44 linesof gothic type (17:58G, 27:110G) printed double column in Latin.The versocontains the same amount of lines, type & layout. (Hain 5396,Proctor 4922, Oates 1931, GW 1934)

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